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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by xondono on Saturday November 20, 2021 @04:47AM (#29286751)
> Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.

Except the blockchain only keeps the url, so the “content” doesn’t get any of the properties of the blockchain

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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by Hamuko on Saturday November 20, 2021 @05:07AM (#29286817)
There's blockchain somewhere in there, so that means that the technology is great and will change the world.
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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by xvector on Saturday November 20, 2021 @06:07AM (#29287051)
Incorrect, often NFTs contain the hash of the content, where the content itself is pinned to IPFS.

That said, tokens that are not pinned to IPFS are fucking worthless, and it's hard to tell whether an NFT is pinned to IPFS unless you're skilled at navigating Ethereum contacts.

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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by XorNot on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:01AM (#29287341)
IPFS drops content that's not seeded. Unless you have a backup, you're not going to be able to recover a matching file.
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